Benjamin Huger (congressman)

Benjamin Huger (1768-7 July 1823) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-SC 3) from 4 March 1799 to 3 March 1805 (succeeding Lemuel Benton and preceding David R. Williams) and from 4 March 1815 to 3 March 1817 (succeeding Theodore Gourdin and preceding James Erwin).

Biography
Benjamin Huger was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1768, and he became a rice planter along the Waccamaw River. He served in the State House from 1796 to 1798 annd from 1806 to 1813, in the US House of Representatives from 1799 to 1805 and from 1815 to 1817, and in the State Senate from 1818 until his death in 1823.